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BY KEITH NUTHALL

INNOVATIVE recommendations are being developed to boost fruit and vegetable consumption by Euro 13.8 million European Union research project ISAFRUIT. It says consumers in Greece, Spain, Italy and the Netherlands, eat the most fruit in Europe (70- 100 kg per person), followed by Germany, Poland and Britain at 40-60 kg, but that consumption is not rising.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

SCIENTISTS in Britain, Germany, France, Italy, the Netherlands and Slovenia are trying to map the genetic code of superbug Clostridium (or C) difficile to help efforts to develop effective antibiotics or even a vaccine. The bug is often present in hospitals where it is hard to destroy through disinfection and infections are hard to treat.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A EUROPEAN Union (EU)-funded research project called SonoDrugs has united universities and high-tech businesses in developing tiny, image-guided medicine capsules which could target medicines to where they are needed in a patient’s body. The aim of the innovation is conveying doses through blood vessels to the centre of an infection or disease, after which the drugs are activated by ultrasound pulses.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A PRECEDENT setting decision is expected from the European Commission on subsidising natural gas supplies to specific industries. Brussels has opened a formal investigation into tax exemptions offered by the Netherlands on gas used by Dutch ceramic producers.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

SCIENTISTS in Britain, Germany, France, Italy, the Netherlands and Slovenia are mapping the genetic code of superbug Clostridium (or C) difficile to develop effective antibiotics or even a vaccine. The bug is often present in hospitals where it is hard to destroy through disinfection and infections are hard to treat.…

By Keith Nuthall

European scientists are starting to identify tangible health concerns associated with the use of nanoparticles in consumer products. Academic health experts within the European Union’s (EU) scientific committee on emerging and newly identified health risks have raised some serious problems in a new detailed paper.…

By Monica Dobie

A European Union (EU)-funded research project called SonoDrugs is developing tiny, image-guided medicine capsules conveying doses through blood vessels to the centre of an infection or disease, after which the drugs are activated by ultrasound pulses. This new technology is initially being developed for cardiovascular disease and cancer by the Euro 15.9 million project, which includes Dutch electronics giant Philips; Nanobiotix, of France; and Lipoid, of Germany; as well as academics from the University of Cyprus, University of Gent (Belgium), University of Helsinki, University of London, University of Tours (France), University Victor Segalen Bordeaux (France), University of Technology Eindhoven (the Netherlands), and the University of Udine (Italy).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE MAXIMUM amount of duty-free or duty-paid tobacco that can be brought into the European Union (EU) from a non-EU country without paying EU excise duty can now be reduced to just 40 cigarettes. That is an option now offered to member states, which can maintain the previous 200 cigarette limit if they choose.…

By Alan Osborn

The failure of business to invest significantly in innovation projects remains the major weakness in the European Union’s (EU) research picture, says the European Commission. While there is "substantial progress" in some aspects of the EU’s innovation performance, investments by business in R&D and IT projects "are still relatively weak, especially if compared to the US and Japan," claims Brussels.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has been advised to push for an increase in the maximum size and weight of lorries allowed across the European Union (EU) – maybe to 60 tonnes and 25.25 metres – by a report that will kick off an official review of these rules.…